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History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Author:Meriwether Lewis Title: History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, 1804-5-6 [ed. by N. Biddle] Prepared for the Press by P. Allen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Notes: This is ... more »a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. The part; in their passage (till visited by the Indians -- Lepage's river de- trribed -- immense quantities of snjtnoti caught by the Indians -- description of the river Towahnahiooks -- Indian mode of stacking fish, and preparing them for market -- description of the great falls -- description of an Indian canoe -- alarm excited by an anticipated attack from the Eheltoots -- a very dangerous rapid passed in safety, called by the Indians the Falls -- account of the Indian houses in the neighbourhood -- another dreadful rapid passed without injury -- Some account of the Chilluckitlequaw Indiaw -- captain Clarke examines the great rapids -- description of au Indian burial-place- the rapidj passed in safety. Monday 21. THE morning was cool, and the wind from the southwest. At five and a half miles we passed a small island, and one a half further another in the middle of the river, which has some rapid water near its head, and opposite to its lower extremity are eight cabins of Indians on the right side. We landed near them to breakfast, but such is the scarcity of wood, that last evening we had not been able to collect any thing except dry willows, and of these not more than barely sufficient to cook our supper; this morning we could not i'. ol enough even to prepare breakfast. The Indians received us with great kindness, and examined ev...« less